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Denny House

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c. 1850; 1907 addition. 145 High St.

This is one of several surviving residences along Waynesburg's commercial corridor. E. L. Denny added a Dutch-gabled brick facade to his two-and-one-half-story home in 1907. The facade, with stone coping around the shaped parapet and a round-arched entrance, is unique in Waynesburg. An older portion dating from the 1850s lies to the north and is set off by a rounded portico. The kitchen wing at the rear was bricked over and enlarged sometime after 1910, and a garage was added. E. L. Denny, entrepreneur and coal rights buyer, died young but left a small fortune to his wife and three young daughters. They maintained the house with its turn-of-the-twentieth-century aggrandizements for over eighty years.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lu Donnelly et al.
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What's Nearby

Greene County Courthouse
Adam Hewitt–Huffman House
Observer-Reporter Building (Democrat Messenger Building)
Waynesburg University
Greene County Log Courthouse

Citation

Lu Donnelly et al., "Denny House", [Waynesburg, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-GR5.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 1

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 265-265.

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